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Brick and marble in the Middle Ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy (1855)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 102

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Cloister — Broletto, Brescia. The arches throughout are both round and pointed,and very much mixed together; but this mixture pro- S. Gereon, at Cologne, is a magnificent example of a church upon thesame kind of plan; a grand choir projected from a decagonal nave, theeffect of which is most noble.… … 6.—BROLETTO, BRESCIA. Chap. V. THE BROLETTO. 67 bably does not betoken any diversity of date, as itwould in England. A large quadrangle is formed by tbe buildings, whichhas a cloister on two sides, and traces of another clois-ter on a third side now built up. The cloister stillremaining on the east…

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